South Africa’s Prudence Sekgodiso achieved her first victory in the tournament. wonder diamond league On Sunday (19th), he won the 800 meters at the International Mohammed VI Athletics Championships held in Marrakech in a world-leading time of 1:57.26.
Chase Jackson set meet records in the women’s shot put and Lazaro Martinez in the men’s triple jump, while local favorite Sufjan El Baccari achieved another strong performance in the steeplechase.
Sekgodiso has been unbeaten on her home turf so far this year, but this is the 22-year-old’s first international race of the season, and she has improved well. Olympic finalist Habitum Alem (Ethiopia) led the first lap in 57.07 seconds, but Sekogodiso finished with perfect timing, shaving 0.79 seconds off the mark he set in Pretoria in March, for the second time this year. He achieved his personal best and won the championship.
Aremu was second with a time of 1:57.70, and Noelie Yarrigo was third with a time of 1:59.96.
In the final race of the night, El Baccari won the steeplechase, allowing fans in the stadium to go home satisfied.
The Moroccan athlete competed in the steeplechase for the first time this season, competing against the talented Ethiopian duo Getnet Wale and Samuel Fayau, as well as Kenya’s Amos Salem. After passing the starting kilometer from the pacemaker in 2 minutes 42.62 seconds, Wale took the lead and crossed 2000 meters in 5 minutes 30.66 seconds.
He became El Baccari’s toughest challenger in the closing stages, but the world and Olympic champion crossed the line first in 8:09.40 to maintain his winning streak. Wale took a close second place with a time of 8:09.78, and Sellem was a further two seconds behind in third place.
The women’s 5000m race was even closer. A group of five women emerged in the final stages, consisting of Kenya’s Edina Jevitok, Ethiopia’s Medina Eissa, Fotien Tesfaye, Melkunat Udu, and Rikina Amebau. That number was reduced to three on the final lap as Tesfaye, Eissa and Dzevitok began sprinting towards the line.
Just when it looked like Tesfaye would hang on, his compatriot Asa charged ahead and won by 0.05 seconds in a time of 14 minutes, 34.16 seconds. Tesfaye earned at least a PR (14:35.64), as did Jevitok.
Shortly before Ethiopia won 1-2 in the 5000m, Kenya won 1-2 in the men’s 800m.
Emmanuel Wanyonyi, still only 19 years old, showed great performance and fought off a strong challenge from compatriot Wycliffe Kinyamalu to win in 1 minute 43.84 seconds. Kinyamalu followed with a time of 1 minute 43.98 seconds, followed by France’s Yannis Mezien in third place (1 minute 44.13 seconds).
Azzedine Habbs of France stole the march in the highly competitive 1500m arena, running away to win in 3:32.86. Competing in her first outdoor race of 2024, Europe’s indoor bronze medalist was near the front of the pack from the start, while Ethiopia’s Ramecha Girma was initially at the back of the field.
Girma, along with British duo Elliott Giles and George Mills, moved up the field with one lap to go, but Habs had already begun his long run home and was unable to catch up. He finished with a 0.61 lead over Mills, who had just caught Giles on the line. Girma was fourth with a time of 3:33.54.
National and tournament records fall on the field
Serbian teenager Angelina Topic won the high jump for the second time at this year’s Wanda Diamond League, this time setting a national record.
Nine days after winning in Doha with 1.94m, the European bronze medalist dominated the competition, winning the first clear with 1.95m and breaking the Serbian record of 1.98m on his third attempt. Germany’s Christina Honsel took second place with 1.91 meters.
Chase Jackson recorded a height of 20.00 meters in the second round of the shot put, breaking a 10-year meet record and beating Valerie Adams’ mark set in 2014 by 31 centimeters. The two-time world champion took an early lead with 19.62 meters and then won the next round. Germany’s world indoor silver medalist Emisi Ogunleye was her closest challenger with a throw of 19.40 meters.
Mykolas Alekna, who recently broke the world record, achieved his third consecutive discus over 70 meters. The Lithuanian fouled his first attempt, but took the lead in the second round with 69.94 meters. He then shot 70.70m in the fourth round, just eight centimeters short of the tournament record, extending his lead over Australia’s Matt Denny (67.74m). World and Olympic champion Daniel Staal took third place with 67.49 meters.
The meet record, clearly one of the weakest in the record books, was broken on the first attempt in the men’s triple jump. Olympic champion Pedro Pichardo jumped 16.76 meters in the first round, breaking Nelson Evora’s 10-year competition record of 16.62 meters. Cuba’s 2022 World Indoor Champion Lázaro Martinez then surpassed that in the third round with 17.10 meters, the day’s best.
Elsewhere, Switzerland’s Angelica Moser won the women’s pole vault with a height of 4.73 meters, while Italy’s Roberta Bruni came in second with a height of 4.65 meters.
Ruin occurs at 400 meters
World indoor champion Alexander Doom begins his outdoor individual competition, with the Belgian clearly picking up where he left off in his indoor season.
Nigeria’s Emmanuel Bamidele got off to a strong start and took the lead at the halfway point, but Doom, Mzala Samukonga and Bayapo Ndri narrowly caught him at the final corner. As they approached the home straight, Bamidele’s challenge began to wane and the other three cars continued to move forward.
Just like in the over 400m and 4x400m at the World Indoor Championships, Doom timed his finish well and won in a personal best 44.51, placing him second on the Belgian all-time record behind Jonathan (44.43) and Kevin. became. Boley (44.56).
Samkonga was second with a season-best 44.54 points, and Ndri was third with 44.59 points.
Two-time world champion Shericka Jackson made her long-awaited 200m season debut and took home a victory, but only by a small margin.
Jackson, the second fastest woman in history, crossed the finish line in first place in 22.82 seconds (-1.0 m/s), but instead of pulling away from the field and winning by a commanding distance, as she often does. That’s what the Jamaican girlfriend seemed to say. We are always fighting for victory. Mabound Kone of Ivory Coast took second place with a time of 22.96 seconds.
In the men’s 100m, Cameroon’s Emmanuel Essemé beat Olympic 200m champion Andre de Grasse in 10.11 seconds (-0.8 m/s), with Canada’s Essemeh winning in 10.19 seconds.
In the women’s 400m hurdles, world bronze medalist Rachelle Clayton led Jamaica with a 1-2 lead, beating compatriot Sian Salmon, who ran a season’s best 54.27 seconds, in 53.98 seconds.